Tuesday, October 4

Please submit your photo diary assignment - Katy Grannan before Tuesday. Play around with lighting in the studio this weekend just to brush up on types. Please have three pitches of ideas for your next proposal in you sketchbook for Tuesday. Take those columns that you wrote in your sketchbook as ideas. Start looking at other photographers to put in you sketchbooks for ideas if you hit a wall. Good luck!


Here are some links to Grannan's work to talk about American Dream loss...
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/on-the-boulevard-with-katy-grannan

http://www.artnet.com/awc/katy-grannan.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOef03Sy3x0

Thursday, Sept. 29

Please start your sketchbook for contemporary photography. Start researching ideas, concepts and photographers. Please make a list of three columns. One column - things you hate that make you made. Middle column - things that you are attracted to (aka colors, other artists, settings, objects, etc.) Far column - things that you love. See if there is a way to combine the ideas between them. Look at photographers that work in portraiture that you are attracted to. Print off these works and put them in you sketchbook. A good sketchbook is more of a scrapbook than anything. Lots of bits and pieces make a whole.

It doesn't have to be pretty...just functional. Here are some images of some friends books, former students and professionals.

Return to Normal - Sept. 27, 2016

Check back here on Tuesday, Sept. 27th, 2016 for our regular updates of a blog. Until then be thinking of me with little one at home and making great art in the meantime. Excited to see what you all have been up to over the past month. See ya then!

Thursday, Dec. 5 and Final on Dec. 12

THURSDAY CRITIQUE
Please have your work and artist statement ready to go in the side art hallway. Your proposal will be turned in for the final but if you would like for me to look things over one last time before you turn in it to professional sphere bring it along.

No sketchbook this assignment. Trying to make things a little easier at the end here.

FINAL - Thursday at 9 am. Will clean up the lab and prep for the spring.
Turn in your final proposal, your photo diary, digital files for the department hard drive and behance profile with your material uploaded.

BEHANCE
Please start a profile. Have all three projects / overview shots of gallery and individual works uploaded to your behance. You can also choose a min of 5 photo diary assignments to upload as well. This is a great way to get your work out there in the digital world.

PHOTO DIARY LIST
Diary 01 - Tell a Story (you picked the number of photos)
Diary 02 - Nicholas Nixon / Extreme Close Ups (5 photos)
Diary 03 - Duane Michals / Build it (6 photos)
Diary 04 - Arthur Tess / Photo Collage (3 photos)
Diary 05 - Emotive Photos of a Place (2 photos)
Diary 06 - Wright Morris / Narrative Style with description (4 photos)
Diary 07 - Alt. Process / Photograms (1 photo - digital photo of print)
Diary 08 - Alec Soth / Odyssey Trip (4 photos)
Diary 09 - Documentary (people / place ) (number of shots up to you)
Diary 10 - Meet New Person (5 photos)
Diary 11 - Jill Greenberg / Humanistic Animals (5 photos)
Diary 12 - Portrait Style of Choosing (5 photos)

PORTFOLIO HARDRIVE LIST
Photo Diary
Project 01 - All images of project / Gallery Shots / Artist Statement

Project 02 - All images of project / Gallery Shots / Artist Statement

Project 03 - All images of project / Gallery Shots / Artist Statement

Proposal

Christmas list will be coming soon...

Thanksgiving Break Assignment

OVER THANKSGIVING
LAST PHOTO DIARY / Bring on Tuesday when get back.
Shoot in the five images in the style of one of the following photographers from your syllbus' contemporary photographer section. It's Thanksgiving so the contemporary photographers is a great one to end on. Pick one of the following: Katy Grannan, Martine Franck, Phillippe Halsman, Hendrik Kerstens and or Annie Leibovitz. LAST PHOTO DIARY SO MAKE IT GREAT:)

I will have a list for you over thanksgiving of your photo diary assignments so that you can prep those. I believe Kathryn and Hannah said they would like to make the books together so that way you can ship together.

We have a show for you to apply to for your final. You can choose any body of work that we have worked on over the semester. We will be finishing up edits to your proposals / adding slide list and images and you'll send in work at the end of the semester for the show.

Thursday, Nov. 21

Here is the link for our photo diary book. We will use the cheapest soft cover book. We will talk over these on Thursday.
http://www.artifactuprising.com/site/softcover_photobook#ad-image-0

Class is at noon on Thursday due to critique in Photo I.

Tuesday, Nov. 19

Thank you for taking down and repairing the gallery. Please bring your revised gallery proposals to class printed out for credit. Start working on your tests and plans so that you can start in on material. We will have one of two more digital assignments and then we will get started on getting the diary together before the end of the semester. If you weren't happy with any of those assignments please consider reshooting before we assemble the book. See you Tuesday. We will probably need to replace film developer first thing on Tuesday.